How to migrate from Stocky: a step-by-step guide

Step 1 — Export every CSV Stocky offers

Shopify’s own transition guide tells every Stocky merchant to export their data to CSV before the shutdown, and states plainly that historical purchase orders cannot be imported into Shopify. Reorder points and supplier lead times exist only in Stocky — no export, no recovery. Minimum order quantities are worse still: Stocky exposes them in neither its API nor any CSV, so plan to re-enter those by hand wherever you land.

Do this first, before comparing apps. Our Stocky CSV export guide covers what Shopify tells you to export and how to check each file is actually usable — including the classic mistake of re-saving files in Excel and corrupting them.

Step 2 — Know what Shopify keeps automatically

Not everything needs migrating. Products, variants, current stock levels and your entire sales history live in Shopify itself and are untouched by the Stocky shutdown. What disappears is the layer Stocky added on top: supplier records, purchase order history, stocktake records, and every planning number. The full breakdown is in what happens to your Stocky data.

Step 3 — Choose where the planning layer goes

Shopify’s free native purchase orders will record what you decided to order, but they do not suggest quantities, alert you at a reorder point, or store lead times — we compared them honestly here. If Stocky’s reorder suggestions were your working queue, you need a replacement app; here is how UreyukiBox compares, including where Stocky is still ahead.

Step 4 — Copy your data with a Stocky migration tool

CSVs preserve values but flatten relations: which product you buy from which supplier, which orders belong to whom. A migration tool that reads the Stocky API directly can keep those relations intact. In UreyukiBox this is a wizard on the free plan: paste a Stocky API key and it copies suppliers, purchase order history, stock adjustments and tax rates, then links each product to the supplier you last ordered it from.

This step only works while Stocky’s API is still online — another reason the deadline drives the schedule, not the app choice.

Step 5 — Import the CSV-only fields

The Stocky API never exposed reorder points or lead times — they exist only in your CSV export. UreyukiBox imports them with manual column mapping, so it works even when your export’s column names differ, and shows a preview of how many existing values would be overwritten before anything is written.

Step 6 — Verify, then archive the raw files

After the copy, compare counts: suppliers, purchase orders, product–supplier links. Keep the original CSV files somewhere safe, unmodified. They are the last snapshot of your Stocky history that will ever exist.